NOSE DIVE INTO CYBER-HELL

I was almost to the point of uploading my eBook (for the final time) for ePub conversion when my old MacBook Pro took a nose dive into cyber-hell. According to trusted Mac geeks, it is not fixable. So, I have borrowed an iBookG4 to finish the project--I know, I can hear the groans coming through the eathernet cable. Anywyay, an antiquated Microsoft Word for Mac is on board but it is not up to snuff with what is needed to do the job. (And, yes, I have backup copies of my work in DOCX on thumb drives.) Any suggestions of how I can go from here. I have Open Office, too, but I don't see on the Lulu site where that is usable. Thanks for your help.

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OpenOffice is fine. You can use whatever you choose. The doc's though have to be certain files to upload. MS Word doc's, pdf's etc. Lots of people here use it. Just save it as a Word doc then upload that. Should be fine.

Another option nobody seems to realize exists, there is a free web-based version of MS Word that has all of the features required to format an eBook (or probably a print book) and which will save to the microsoft cloud service (OneDrive) to protect your files in case of unexpected nosedives into cyber-hell.

Thank you, TheJesusNinja, Scyoni, and Em_Press, for your valuable information. I think I'm going to go with the antiquated Word program as the iBookG4 is struggling enough just to keep up with itself. I shall persevere! I'm soooooooo close. :-) Ari

Ok. Now I have a new problem. I have uploaded the newest version (using OpenOffice, as it turns out) and it was accepted. However, I can't open it in iBooks which the way I have been doing it to make highlights for editing in the newest edition. What am I doing wrong?